Burevestnik Cinema


Burevestnik is an iconic among cinephiles cinema at Bolshaya Sadovaya Street and Voroshilovsky Prospect intersection in Rostov-on-Don.

History

This spot is a former trading house of Melkonov-Ezenkov. Its first floor was occupied by cinema Kolizey.
After the Revolution the cinema bore the name of Sverdlov. On 21 July 1920 Sergei Yesenin had a performance there – this event is immortalized in the plaque facing Bolshaya Sadovaya Street. Anatoly Marienhof took part in this poetry reading. Also there was a public club and a library here.
The building burned down in the Great Patriotic War and was reconstructed again only in 1953. Later Burevestnik cinema was housed in it.
Besides numerous meeting with famous actors and cinematographers, between 2000 and 2008 Burevestnik cinema held 29 film festivals, 16 sneak previews, 10 retrospectives.
On 28 September 2008 municipal administration decided, despite of public opposition, to close the cinema in connection with redeploying it to Southern Federal University. Last film demonstrated here was Mirror directed by Andrei Tarkovsky.
SFU rector Vladislav Zakharevich claimed that an official document for premises of the cinema was handed over to him only in the summer 2009. But in so doing, a half of the premises had already been taken for a reception office of the President of the Russian Federation.
In February 2010 sign of the Russian President's plenipotentiary in Southern Federal District was set on the façade of the building. The premises of a former cinema were divided into two parts with a wall. Intentions to revive here the tradition of film demonstrations declared by the SFU administration still haven't been implemented.